Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-11
. MODEL BUILDING.
THE BOARD OF EDUCATION SELECTS PLANS
FOR A NEW SCHOOL HOUSE
To Be Erected in the First Ward-Ths Choice Of TIT
Committee APpNvsd-AR Rough Description
Of the Proposed Bdifca.

A special meeting of the Board OF Edu-
cation was held last evening to CONSIDER
the report of the Committee on Buildings
and Grounds, transmitting plans for the
public school building which it is proposed
to erect in the First ward. President
Pipes presided. The absentees were Messrs'
Acker, Eschstruth, Shafer, Whally, White
and Work.
The Committee, through Mr.. Dobblns,
its chairman, laid four plans before the
Board, three from Architect c. +. Weus,
and. the fourth from Architect u I.
Hamilton. The plans of Mr.. Wells were
numbered l., H., and Ill, and the COM
mittee, after an exhaustive examination OF
the merits of all the plans, unanimously
recommended that plan No. l., submitted
by Mr.. Wells, was in every way suitable
TO the requirements Of the school, anu
should be adopted.
The plans were spread ont for the III
spection of the members, and were all eX-
amined at length. Mr.. Wells plan No.
|. was accompanied by a handsomely
sketched and framed elevation. This ele-
walton showed q building surmounted ny
a high ornamental slate and tin roof, with
a central bell tower of pleasing design,
rising from the centre to a height OF l2O
feet. The main entrance is located Just IN
the centre of the building, on the street,
and at the angles of the wings, front and
rear, are additional entrances, one on each
corner. The foundation is OF pick-dressed
stone, about five feet high on the line OF
the street, and varying in height On the
sides, according to the nature OF the sur
face of the ground. Each front OF the build
ING bears an ornamental dormer window IN
the centre, at the roOf-line. The front
of the building shows n double ornamental
window over the main entrance and three
windows on each side of this indow ana
entrance, in the central building, to-
pether with three windows IN
each story of the two side
wings. There are also double windows IN
the angles of the wings, in the second
story, they being over the entrances on TIC
first floor. The side elevations show eleven
windows in both the first and second sto-
ries. with the addition of the ornamental
windows il the angles of the wings. In
the basement there are eight q
showing on each side. The front OF the
building shows handsome terra Gotta Orna-
ments at several points, the one over the
main entrance being q life-sized representa-
ton of a youth, clothed after the manner
affected by cupidS, chcruhs, and Others oil
the same genus.
The plans of the ediiice show q building
125 reet from north to south, and liz feet
from east TO west. The general form Is
that of \ Maltese cross, the wings being
used for school purposes, while the central
portion of the cditice is occupied by a large
rOtunda and the 'tairways, seven IN num-
Der, leading to the second story.
In the basement, the portion of the main
building next Main street is designated as
a coal room. On either hand are cold air
rooms for supplying the ventilating appa-
ratus. The central part of this floor is q
storage room, and opening into 1t, on the
right and lett, are furnace rooms and boys
and girls closets. The rear portion OF the
basement, which is at quite IN elevation,
owing to the slOping nature OF the ground,
is designed for two school rooms, rs well
situated us any in the building.
Entering the main entrance OF the first
floor, the first apartment on the right is the
apparatus room, 13.6Xl3.G. Next to 1t Is
the Principals private office, lOXlG feet.
On the opposite side of the hall is II school
rOom,2 5x2S feet. lu the north wing are
two school rooms, n 25X2S and the other
25x3O feet, and in the west wing two
others, 2iX30 feet each. The south wing
is also provided with two rooms, of the
same dimensions OF those in the north
wing. As has been stated, there are four
entrances to this floor, besides the main
entrance, the doors being situated in the
angles of the wings, aud all open directly
into the central rotunda, making the best
possible arrangement for emptying the
building quickly in case of necessity. The
rotunda is about 80 feet in diameter, and
from it rise the seven flights OF stairs to the
second floor.
On the Main street side of the second
floor there is a grammar room, 39X43 feet,
with two class rooms opening out of it on
the north side, each 16xl6.G. Six school
rooms surround the rOtunda here, they be-
ing respectively, 95.6x2S, 25.6X30.6, 24.6-
x30G, 2I6x30.6, 25.6X306 and %. 6X2S
feet in dimensions. The rOtunda includes
a circular hallway, ten feet wide, from
which the rooms open out.
The building thus includes fifteen school
rooms, and the grammar room, besides the
class rooms, and there are also numerous,
commodiOus and convenient cloak rooms
near each school room. The entire ar
rangcmeut is admirable, and the building
will be by far the best school ediiCe in the
city.
There was a good deal Of discussion
among the members of the Board ~ to the
plans, but there was no very serious an
tagonism to the report of the committee,
and after the specifications had been read,
not only those belonging to Mr.. Wells,
but Mr.. HamiltOn's as we'll, the report
of the committee wa adopted. On mo
ton of Mr.. DObbins, the rom
mittee was then directed to advertise for
bids for the new building, they TO ask for
bids for all new material, and also for bids
which would include the use of the mate
rial now in the present school building
The new house, it is thought, will cost
about S2l. 900. Mr.. Wells charges moth
lug for his plans, but puts his commission
for experimenting at i've per cent. Mr..
Hamilton asked $50 for his plans, and
fixed his commission at four per cent,
with II clerk, or five per cent without a
clerk.
There was a good deal Of discussion,
before the Hoard adjourned, as TO the mat
ter of a Foundation, aud the general nature
of the soil, aud it was agreed, At the sug-
geStion of Mr.. Harrell, that when the pres
ent building should DE torn down, the
foundation should be allowed to remain
and lie tillei up level with the surface, asa
means OF imparting additional stability to
the surface of the ground.
RIGS at G.. Mendel x Co. 5.
Complim entary Song Recital.